Yesterday Yahoo! profiles launched their new service, geared towards a more open and social Yahoo!. This new version of Yahoo! profiles has lots of great features that can help you stay connected with your friends and family. When you create a new Yahoo! profile page, you’ll be able to add photos, information about yourself and invite your friends to connect with you.
Your profile is all about you-your connections , your updates , your privacy settings , your life. We want to help you better connect with the people that matter to you in the easiest way possible, whether it’s sharing your recent updates or connecting with people from your address book- we’re here to help.
We realize that many Yahoo! Groups users and moderators previously used the profiles system to verify user’s age and contact details. With the new profiles system, once a user updates their profile you’ll only see the limited contact card (displaying the user’s name, location, age, gender and status message) unless you are a connection for that user, or the user has updated their permissions.
This means that until a user updates their profile information, you’ll see a blank contact card for that user. Each user will have to go in and update their profile in the new system, and decide whether or not they want their data to be viewable by all users. For more information on how to do this, visit the profiles news blog , or the profiles help pages .
Some of you have expressed your concern with being unable to verify whether or not a user is over 18. Don’t worry—this feature is built in to the Yahoo! system—any users under the age of 18 will not be able to get to a group that is marked as mature content that may not be appropriate for minors. This takes place whether or not a user has updated their profile, or whether or not you can view their profile. As a group owner, you don’t have to do anything to verify a user’s age.
Thanks for sticking with us while we make these updates to the profiles system. The new profile features a lot of changes that help make your profile on Yahoo! easier to use and manage, but we know there are some growing pains.
Thanks for your patience!
they made a mistake by closing yahoo 360,i don,t like the new yahoo profile because you can,t add themes.
What is wrong with yahoo? They are changing things. Many things do not seem
to work as they should are as good as they used to. I spend more time at the
computer doing less as I try figure out whats happened. Please go back to the
old yahoo and leave it alone. Tool Bar what a piece of junk! I can’t get signed in to E-Mail!!!!
@Pamela,
I’ve forwarded your comment on to the Mail CC team to see if they can’t help. Is the email address you used here the best way for CC to reach you? If not, please email me directly from the address that works.
-Melissa
yahoogroups [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com
i was using the system when yahoo needed to reload .. fine with me… now i want to access mail urgently but i have to sign in… no problem.. password incorrect so i reset.. instruction go to mail to see instruction to reset…. fine .. but where is the mail? isn’t is obvious that i cannot access mail because i have to sign in? and isn’t it common knowledge that i cannot sign in with out password? well who is the fool here. certainly me … i am being taken for a ride…i go to history. i go to bookmarks. i go to most visited… and my god i arrive at msn instead of yahoo… when it is yahoo’s mail i am looking for..can u understand my position… i need to access other stuff on the computer but i need to get to yahoo mail first… i know where to find msn when i need to … i want yahoo mail how do i access it..when it not available to me…i am certainly placed in a vacuum… i need to escape from here through my mail…all my research is held at bay if i cannot get to mail urgently…… ffrustrated
I want to join a certain group,but my yahoo group profile shows up blank. Please correct this ASAP as I want to be granted access to this group(Lani Todd 2)thank you.
I joined Yahoo Groups originally in 2003, and back then it was the perfect place for groups…and now I come back, and everything is such a mess! I mean, it’s true right that 90% of post are spam? I can easily believe that. I was searching for groups and so many of them are nothing but spam! And yahoo can’t do anything to get rid of this spam because it’s the moderators’ responsibility…and yet all the moderators say that because of these new profiles, they can’t tell who’s a spammer and who’s not. However, my major problem right now is that my profile card just doesn’t work…it works on my profile, but none of the information is carried over to my yahoo groups. It’s all out of date. So I make a new yahoo id…and I can’t even see my information! Seriously, you did not think how this was going to affect people? And it doesn’t even work right…
Fix it. Seriously. You can keep the fancy layout, you can keep your stupid connections, but get the old stuff back. Make it work. Also, get rid of the Zombie groups and get rid of the spam. It’s driving me crazy…
in the process of signing up I tried 10 times to edit my profile with out oncedid it change,I just read the info. above and think I dont want to sign up at all ,who ever is running things now should rehire a older employee and get back to what you where
Thank you Mr. Harwood. I try and keep my work and family email seperate from my chat friends. I have never met my chat friends and even though people I got to “know” in chat I call friends, I may not want everyone on my messenger list knowing my family or my co-workers. As many of us know, some people enjoy causing trouble for others. I would hope I have no one on my list like that but you never know, especially if their contacts are also suggested as connections for me. I guess I really don’t want my friends friends friends even knowing about me in some cases. I have taken “one said’s” suggestion, we’ll see if it works. This whole connecting and using real names worries me. It seems to me that yahoo has over stepped it’s bounds. Unless they get into our emails, how would they know who else’s names are listed in the forwards….
ok, its solved .thanks for the one who commented before me directly.